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Let’s Talk About #TitleTalk

The BCS National Championship Game, the final computer- and poll-generated practice in automated futility before the FBS’s playoff system comes to fruition next season, played out last night in operatic, storybook fashion. Heisman Trophy winner Jameis Winston, Florida State’s redshirt freshman quarterback, led an 80-yard, 58-second final drive which concluded in a two-yard touchdown pass to Kelvin Benjamin, sealing an 18-point comeback victory on Winston’s twentieth birthday. The SEC’s seven-year run of preeminence in college football came to a close, at least for the moment, and a valiant performance from Auburn will surely be lost to the annals of time. No one ever remembers who finished second.

And then, finally, the tweets which used #TitleTalk but were either semi/entirely unrelated or complained about how ESPN2 was ruining the game by not showing the regular coverage. The latter group seemed not to realize that the game itself, with Brent Musberger and Kirk Herbstreit commentating, was broadcast on ESPN. There was even an account, @BrandyInFL, which spent its time telling people who didn’t know the difference to switch to ESPN:

#TitleTalk You may want to mention that people who don't like split screen can switch to regular ESPN for the full screen game. #BCS